- 04 Apr, 2021
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Ethical Autobiography
Ethical Autobiography
You will explain in more detail your moral outlook — your ethic.
Carefully answer these two question:
Question 1:
Identify and describe your governing convictions —those beliefs that are essential to the way you view the world (“maxims,” “virtues,” “central beliefs,” etc.). Sometimes this kind of exercise is described as a “personal confession”: what are the baseline commitments that guide your life, by which you live? Describe, as best you can, the sources of these pivotal convictions; how have they become your convictions? Describe the way you these have changed (or perhaps have not changed) over the course of your university preparation.
Question 2:
In light of the various moral types we have engaged (authoritarian models, Kantian models, virtue models, consequentialist models, egoism, etc.) describe your own moral outlook. How do you tend to proceed morally in the world? Are you a consequentialist? Are you essentially Kantian? Are you primarily an authoritarian? Do you tend toward certain types, or perhaps different types depending on context? Or is the typology insufficient to describe you? Be as specific as you can be and use specific example — test cases, or you like — to illustrate your moral reasoning. As with the first question, describe the way your moral methodology has changed (or perhaps not changed) over the course your university experience.
(Background: I am an international student from China. I lived in China with my family, until 18 years old I left my family and homeland, came to the United States for my undergraduate study. Come to the United States is my first time to go abroad. And now this is my fourth year, and I will graduate in this May. After I graduate I will back to China stay with my family.